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Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series #20)
By: Earl Creps , Dan KimballeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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In Off-Road Disciplines, Earl Creps reveals that the on-road practices of prayer and Bible reading should be bolstered by the other kinds of encounters with God that occur unexpectedly—complete with the bumps and bruises that happen when you go “off-road.” Becoming an off-road leader requires the cultivation of certain spiritual disciplines that allow the presence of the Holy Spirit to arrange your interior life. Earl Creps explores twelve central spiritual disciplines—six personal and six organizational—that Christian leaders of all ages and denominations need if they are to change themselves and their churches to reach out to the culture around them.
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| Title of Religion eBook: Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series #20) | |
| Release Date: 12-03-2010 | |
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Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series #20)
Chapter One
DeathThe Discipline of Personal Transformation
"If what you're saying about emerging culture is true, how should I change my church?"
A question like this seems almost inevitable when I speak to groups of ministers. A few seconds of silence usually follow as the others in the room dial in their full attention to hear my response. In their minds, they have paid to come to the conference for this moment, for my "deliverable." The second almost-inevitable question is, "What's working really well in the innovative churches you have visited?" The questioner here determines to elicit a set of best practices that could be imported into her or his ministry.
The commonsense pragmatism driving these questions elevates ministry technique as the starting point for thinking about mission. "How should we do our worship services?" the anxious, balding pastor asks me. Softly, I reply, "You may be asking the wrong question first." My answer, hopefully, suggests a more difficult but more primary question: How can I be changed so that others will find me worth following in mission? The way to develop a missional ministry, then, is to be transformed into a missional person, "so that everyone may see your progress." In the end, my best practice must be me.
The priority of the interior life defies conventional attempts at documentation. But I have seen it and lived it. In fact, virtually every influential leader I know in the Emerging Church points to a crisis of personal transformation as a major source of ministry to postmoderns. This chapter relates some of my o
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